Mass Driver

Type: Medium range kinetic weapon.

For ship type: Frigate

For ranks: 7-11, 10-14, 13-17.

Munitions:

Description

Standart kinetic weapon.

Projectile speed grows with continuous fire.

Pirate mass driver: hits on enemies reduce their hull resistance to kinetic damage down to 50 pts. for 5 sec.

Characteristics

Parameters are shown without ship bonuses and modifiers for the 1 weapon.

Damage per second and per shot increase depending on the number of weapons mounted on the ship.

Some damage parameters are rounded to integer values.

Parameters	Mass Driver 11					Mass Driver 14					Mass Driver 17					Pirate mass driver 17
	Mk.1	Mk.2	Mk.3	Mk.4	Mk.5	Mk.1	Mk.2	Mk.3	Mk.4	Mk.5	Mk.1	Mk.2	Mk.3	Mk.4	Mk.5	Mk.4
DPS (kinetic)	533 dmg./s.	+19 dmg./s.	+24 dmg./s.	+15 dmg./s.	+16 dmg./s.	564 dmg./s.	+24 dmg./s.	+19 dmg./s.	+16 dmg./s.	+15 dmg./s.	588 dmg./s.	+19 dmg./s.	+20 dmg./s.	+19 dmg./s.	+16 dmg./s.	588 dmg./s.
Damage (kinetic)	136 dmg.	+5 dmg.	+6 dmg.	+4 dmg.	+4 dmg.	144 dmg.	+6 dmg.	+5 dmg.	+4 dmg.	+4 dmg.	150 dmg.	+5 dmg.	+5 dmg.	+5 dmg.	+4 dmg.	150 dmg.
Rate of fire	235 rounds/min					235 rounds/min					235 rounds/min					235 rounds/min
Critical chance	7%					7%					7%					10%
Critical damage bonus	50%					50%					50%					50%
Projectile speed (from-to)	4869-12840 m/s					5005-13200 m/s					5233-13800 m/s					4971-13110 m/s
Firing range (max.)	3600 m.					3600 m.					3600 m.					3600 m.
Spread (from-to)	0.2-0.4 deg.					0.2-0.4 deg.					0.2-0.4 deg.					0.2-0.4 deg.
Overheating/cooling	10/1.5 s.					10/1.5 s.					10/1.5 s.					10/1.5 s.
Cost	Can be picked up from destroyed enemies in the zone Vanguard Outpost	157500	315000	735000	Manufacturing	Can be picked up from destroyed enemies in the zone Orange Giant	427500	855000	1995000	Manufacturing	Can be picked up from destroyed enemies in the zone Threshold	1237500	2475000	5775000	Manufacturing	Manufacturing

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